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France joins Canada in banning LGBTQ+ conversion therapy without exemptions

More good news on the LGBT+ front. France is now banning attempts at changing or “curing” a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity. 

Xtra reports that violators will face a fine of 30,000 euros,  as well as possible imprisonment for up to two years. Even more serious penalties could be levied if the perpetrators harm minors or vulnerable adults.

France’s bill is expected to be signed into law by President Emmanuel Macron before the end of February 2022.

Brazil, Ecuador, Malta, Albania and Germany already have similar laws on the books, as do several US states. Other countries are preparing such legislation. Canada’s ban is set go into effect next month.

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[tamlynmac]

Sorry Julie, but I really think you SHOULD double check your privelage after all!

Here is Julie's article http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/9141292/dont-you-dare-tell-me-to-check-my-privilege/ and here is my response. Julie

Normally I am one for reasoned argument and debate, but since your attitude is standing in the way of fair and reasoned discourse, I feel justifed in calling you a fatuous fetid fucking bellend! I am one of the biggest proponents of Feminism you could ever meet. It's not because I've done the course, or read the books or burnt a bra or let my pubes grow into the shape and size of Terry Wogan's toupee, but because I believe wholeheartedly in the absolute equality between all human beings, regardless of race, sex, gender identity, sexuality or favourite Star Trek Captain. I don't subscribe to a specific ideology of feminism because I find them to be exclusionary even to other feminist ideas. Instead, I will stand up to any bigoted attitude I come up against to the best of my ability, and I devote myself to challenging preconceptions, and opposing victim blaming and 'slut shaming' wherever I encounter it.

You on the other hand very openly subscribe to an ideology where some people are more deserving of acknowledgment and respect than others, without letting little things like facts get in the way. So without further ado, I would consider it a Mitzvah to educate you a little on where your article seems to have fallen from your backside.

First off, comparing the challenges that western trans-people face, to the plight of women of more stone-age cultures is childish. Of course Transwomen in the UK aren't subject to the same abysmal treatment as in places where women are subject to systematic rape, trafficking and mutilation to preserve a disgustingly patriarchal theocracy. However, did you give thought to consider how trans people in these cultures are treated? In most of these culture, Transgenderism and Transsexuality are viewed as general Homosexuality and the reaction tends to be brutal and fatal.

Third world women have it really shitty, but third world Trans people do too. Why don't we just do what educated British white people love to do, and talk about our first world problems instead?

Now, your assertions are pretty off on what life is like for a British Transwoman. First off, HRT. Seriously, we're on HRT from almost the start of our transition. Your assertion that it is a unique part of the 'Cisgender experience' is ignorant. I was 29 when I started HRT, and I know many others who started much younger than I. What percentage of Cis-women are on HRT from their 20s, or even their teens?

What about sexual harassment? You claim that all women will be on the receiving end of unwanted and aggressive sexual advances, but that Transwomen don't have that problem. You may have the attitude that Transwomen are either truck drivers in a bad wig with a name like 'Sparkle' that no one wants to fuck, or heavily plastic surgeried ladyboy sex fiends who will suck anything you put in front of them. In fact Julie, most trans people I know look and act quite 'normal'. Let me assure you that my treatment from amorous guys who DON'T clock me as trans is a lot more respectful than my treatment from those who do. You see Julie, we are so heavily portrayed as fetishists or sexual objects, that a certain subset of men feel as entitled to our bodies as they do to any other woman's. However, with our perceived lower standing in society, there is much less effort made to charm us before it gets nasty and aggressive.

The assertion that we get all our 'beautifucation' surgeries on the NHS is bullshit. As wonderful as a Vagina is, I would hardly put its aesthetics high on a list of the pros of owning one. You wouldn't mount it above the fireplace to admire for all time, it'd give the kids nightmares and make the dog run away.

We get the offer of GRS after a period of two to three years and that is pretty much it. Any other surgeries that we might possibly be elligible for on the NHS require a lot of grovelling and waiting to even get the most basic of feminising treatments. Even something as simple and vital to everyday life as hair removal is virtually impossible to get funding for, and we have to be living full time for nearly a year before we get any assistance in the very baseline form of hormones. Essentially, we are expected to spend the first few months of our lives as women, with NO physical help whatsoever, in a society that views us as little more than perverts, punchbags or punchlines. Please tell me the last time a cisperson got beaten to death or driven to suicide by someone ripping them a new orifice over their gender identity? The issues and challenges that Transwomen face in our culture are either the same, or near identical issues to those that feminists have been fighting against for over a century. To abandon someone's right to be taken seriously and treated respectfully as a woman just because of the genitals they were born with is an abomination of the principals of equality that women throughout the world have suffered and died for.

It is not up to YOU, Julie Burchill, to decide who IS and who ISN'T a man, or a woman, or a squirrel, or a houseplant, or a roll of duct tape. You, and other self righteous, dogmatic evangelists of all doctrines, ideologies and theologies, do not get to decide MY identity, and there are plenty of people out there much better qualified to voice their opinion on the matter than you are.

You want to stand against glass ceilings, FGM, sex trafficking, rape culture, victim blaming, slut shaming and double standards, then I will stand right beside you propping up the other side of the banner, but when you turn on a subset of vulnerable women and treat us like imposters and fantasists, we will show you up for the hypocritical twat that you are.

Tamz

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Forza Vladimir e grazie per il tuo coraggio!

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Marcela Ohio del Brasile è stata incoronata la vincitrice del concorso di bellezza transessuale - Miss International Queen 2013 a Pattaya in Tailandia il 1 ° novembre 2013. Miss USA Shantell D'Marco è arrivata seconda e Thailandese Nethnapada Kanrayanon è arrivata terza.. Nel mese di ottobre di 2012, Marcela Ohio, rappresentante del Distretto Federale( Brasilia), è stata incoronata Miss Brasile T 2012 . Un anno dopo, La transessuale brasiliana viene incoronata Miss International Queen 2013..

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[tamlynmac]

Lucy Meadows and Richard Littlejohn - When will it end?

I was utterly appalled to have heard about this case, and my heart goes out to the family and friends of Lucy Meadows. While her anguish and suffering is at an end,  there are still those who love her that remain and they have my sincerest sympathies.

This is a story that has had its biggest impact within the LGBT community in this country, and has kicked up a shitstorm over the question of who is to blame.

These situations are rarely clear cut. We had a suicide in my family a few years ago, and while loved ones mourned and wept in their grief, my grandfather demounced him as a disgrace for having bought shame upon our family. It is sad that this attitude is still prevalent to victims of suicide, even in this day and age. There will be many out there, coldly, callously placing the blame firmly and Lucy's door.

Sadly, it this callousness and lack of empathy that is most likely the biggest contributing factor. Indeed, with the reports of media hounding and selective reporting (i.e. the publishing fo negative reactions, and the witholding of supportive ones) I find it hard to believe that Press intrusion played no part in this.

I do not wish to go into the sad details of the articles in question, as these can be found anywhere online. I will just say that Lucy Meadows was Transgender, she tried to transition in the same job, and was set upon by the Press as a result.

And here is the problem; The press NEEDS a 'freakshow'. They need a certain type of person to string up and focus contempt, hate and ridicule upon. Humanity is fascinated by the different, the sensational, the lurid and the dangerous. The problem here is that Trans people are not really any of those things. The details have to be exaggerated, fabricated and manipulated to provide the public with its 'freakshow' and thanks to the type of coverage Trans people get in the press, the public are suitibly conditioned to believe the very worst about a person they never have, and likely never will meet.

And this brings me to Richard Littlejohn... the Daily Mail columnist who thought that the story of a primary school teacher changeing their gender presentation was in the national interest. He wrote an article condemning Lucy, whom he only ever referred to as male (and even using her male name), for trying to live the life that she wanted; a life that was supported by her employer, and by many parents at the school where she worked.

Littlejohn is the darling of the British Social Conservative... a man so full of bile and venom towards pretty much anyone non-white, non-straight, non-middle-class and non-christian, that it is easy to dismiss him as just a crackpot. This crackpot, however, has spent years demonising the LGBT community in particular, and recieves a hefty salary of around £1 million from the Daily Mail to preach his hate.

This is the man who brought news of Lucy's situation to the national level, and the thought of people all over the country sat reading such an article about me would likely push my mental state a long way from stable. Littlejohn may not have been the one who wrote the first article about this, he wasn't the last, and he wasn't the only one by a long shot to be that disrespectful to this woman. But his voice was the loudest, and furthest reaching.

There aree petitions out there calling for the Mail to sack him, one of which at the last count was at over 100,000 signatures. Of course Littlejohn's head on a spike (Literal or metaphorical) would not draw a line under the issue, but the press need to understand that picking on ANYBODY for the sake of a cheap, sensationalist article, is unacceptable and has severe consequences.

Littlejohn is a vile man. He sees himself as some guardian of nationalist and conservative morality, but in truth, he is a closed minded bully. No better than the kid in the playground who beats up the smallest one to feel important. He will not accept responsiblity for what he has done, so he must be made to face the consequences. He strung poor Lucy up for his own gains, it is time he faced the same treatment.

Tamz

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